Alex Kime: Weaving Words and Social Impact — A Journey Through Poetry, Education, and Advocacy.
Alex Kime, born and raised near Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a writer, educator, and facilitator. They serve as a lecturer in the Program on Intergroup Relations. Alex’s achievements include winning the 2019 Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry and receiving Highest Honors in Creative Writing & Literature for their poetry manuscript “trans-corporeality” in 2017. They also placed second in the 2017 Current Magazine poetry contest and won the 2015 Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry.
In addition to a background in Creative Writing and Literature, Alex Kime holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan, where they were a National Community Scholar. Alongside Yoseñio V. Lewis, Alex co-authored a chapter in the book “Social Work and Healthcare with Trans and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities,” published by Routledge in 2020.
Alex Kime’s poetry has been featured in Current Magazine, Café Shapiro, the Michigan Daily, and the anthology “Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living.” Their poem “30 seconds to reboot” was awarded the Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry.
